Why the God of Molinism Cares More about Numbers than Individuals

Molinism teaches that God ponders all possible universes and then actualizes the one where most people will be saved. This means that God is looking for quantity. But that also means that God likely damns individuals who would have been saved in other universes, but are not now saved in this one since the situations and environments that would capture the majority have changed from those situations and environments of other possible worlds.

What this ultimately means, whether Molinists want to admit it or not, is that the environment and situation, not the human via freewill, determines whether the individual will believe. In fact, that seems to be the entire point of actualizing a world where the most people will believe. If it were merely due to the freewill of the individual, the same amount of people would believe regardless of the situations and environments in which they were placed. Hence, it is not the person who determines their fate, but the world around them that God has made. This means that different people will be saved in different worlds, and the world that is actualized, i.e., this world, may see the largest numbers believe, but will logically lose people who would have been saved in other worlds.

Ironically, this places Molinism in the same camp as those who believe in double predestination. If Person A would have believed in Situation XYZ, but would not believe in Situation WYZ that replaces XYZ, then God could have saved that individual by creating Situation XYZ, but chose not to do so by creating Situation WYZ instead. This means that God not only predetermines the salvation of those who would be saved by creating the situations and environment that would cause them to believe, as opposed to other situations and environments where they would not have believed, but that He also predetermines the damnation of other persons who would have believed under Situation XYZ, but now will not under Situation WYZ. Hence, people who would have believed, given the right circumstances provided by God, are chosen for damnation because they were not given those circumstances in favor of the larger group chosen for salvation.

Ultimately, Molinism ends up denying the orthodox, Augustinian view of man in favor of a Pelagian view, but assumes the same doctrine of predestination, even double predestination, that so many Molinists are trying to avoid in Calvinism.

Even more, it says something very different about God's love, as in Calvinism, God's love is for individuals and He is willing to damn the majority for the sake of those He has set His love upon. In Molinism, however, God does not love individuals. He merely loves the majority number, the large group, and is thus willing to damn individuals who would have loved him in another world to save the nebulous blob of humanity, as long as it is bigger than the smaller blob who are damned.

Furthermore, this means that God's love would change from one universe to the next, calling into question the aseity and immutability of God. If in one universe God loves Individual X more than the others who are put in situations that determine their damnation, but in another universe God does not love Individual X more than others put in situations that determine their damnation, then God's will and love is contingent upon what universe He makes, making God contingent upon a finite creation.

The God and humanity that Molinism has created, therefore, no longer resembles that of orthodox Christianity, where humans are totally incapable of loving God in their fallen state, regardless of what situation and in what environment they are placed, and God loves individuals and is not willing that any of His chosen should perish, even at the cost of the masses. Yet, the reason Molinism came about was to provide for a free will that is impossible since man chooses in accordance with his environment, the types of choices given, his upbringing, education, mental capacity, cultural ideals, etc. This supposedly presents a better picture of God. I hardly think that it does.